Your favourite fan theories?

I like the one that reckoned that all tarantinos films are set in 1 universe, that Inglorious basterds ending created the emphasis that each film places on pop culture, that mr white and Vincent vega are brothers, and that Mia Wallace got the acting job to star in the movie (cant remember the name now - think it was fox force five) - which is essentially Kill Bill.

I got a theory that Big Bang Theory gives people cancer

The idea that The Incredibles is a homage to Ayn Rand and in particular her book Atlas Shrugged. (example)

The general idea behind the film is that superheroes should be true to their nature as superheroes, because they really are special and shouldn't pretend to be normal. It's essentially an anti-egalitarian message:

Helen: "Everyone's special, Dash."
Dash: "Which is another way of saying no one is."

When Dash graduates from fourth to fifth grade, Mr. Incredible is appalled that there's a ceremony, complaining "they're constantly finding ways to celebrate mediocrity!"

In Atlas Shrugged, the "captains of industry" struggle to keep their enterprises open against greater and greater intrusion by a corrupt government, and rebel by going on "strike" and disappearing, leaving society to collapse without them. It's also about individualism in the face of mediocrity, and being better if you really are.

Poster art from the Atlas Shrugged movie a few years ago:


Still from The Incredibles, final battle against the spheroid robot:



Mr. Incredible reallly does have the weight of the world on his shoulders at that point ... and he shrugs it off.

Coleman Slawski wrote: »

I always thought it was a given that they were?

Its been a couple of years since I saw it but the scene in Reservoir Dogs with Joe & Mr White, a thief named Alabama is mentioned, the main character in True Romance is Alabama Worley (the original ending of True Romance has Clarence die which points to his widow pursuing a life of crime as a result)

There is also the scene with Joe & Mr Blonde when iirc a Vic Vega is mentioned, Travolta is named Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, I thought them to be brothers.

Jack Scagnetti is a cop in Natural Born Killers and Seymour Scagnetti is the parole officer in Reservoir Dogs (never seen on screen though)

Red Apple cigarettes crop up across the movies too.

Eli Roth’s character from Inglorious Basterds is Donny Donowitz and the movie producer in True Romance is Lee Donowitz (his movie is a war tale “Coming home in a Body Bag”)

And although he did not write it, Tarantino produced the film Curdled, and the main character (Also the female taxi driver who helps Butch get away from the boxing arena) is watching a news report on TV at one point about the Gecko brothers (From Dust til Dawn)

Then there is the McGraws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_and_Edgar_McGraw

There was a theory that the Cloverfield monster was the man in black from Lost after finally escaping from the island..

bullvine wrote: »

Has no one mentioned Pulp Fiction and the Soul in the Suitcase yet? that's surely the best one!

Or perhaps it was the jewels from the heist in Resovoir Dogs?

Or the other theory that the reason there's no cops around in Pulp Fiction is because they're all too busy dealing with the events of Res Dogs in another part of town on the same day at the same time.

The Matrix one where Zion was a sublayer seemed obvious to me, and the people who I went to go see it with.

Our man beef with Revolutions is how they obviously decided not to ****ing bother, and didnt explain the situation at all.

I think the only plausible explanation for how Neo could use his powers outside of "The Matrix" was that Zion was part of it. I also thought it was somewhat explained by the Architect which I appreciate might have gone over many peoples heads.

To be honest, from the architect and the scnee with Neo interacting with the machines, I don't know how you'd come to any other reasonable conclusion that Zion wasnt part of the matrix ..

I like the Bond one too, I didn't know about the theory there, but took it for granted at an early age when my Dad first got me into James Bond, he thought that it wasn't always the one agent, but a different one and James Bond was a codename.

It also make an interesting premise for the Craig movies, they were labelled as the start and "beginning" for Bond, and it's plausible that due to his current and most likely forthcoming exploits as 007, his name would be revered for top agents.

Would be a sick theory to wrap into the next film...ergo kill Daniel Craig